I heard someone offer a quote from their Clinical Pastoral Education supervisor: “to the depth you can go to your own pain is the depth to which you can go with the others to their pain.” I was really struck by the reality of this statement in simply saying you cannot go where you haven’t […]
Ever wondered what it is like to go through a spiritual direction session? Feel a little nervous about getting “trapped” into a process or a person? Not to worry! In meeting with a spiritual director, it is usual practice that the first session is a FREE consultation that allows the director and prospective directee to […]
It is not often that I get teary at the end of a book, but Mitch Albom has done it again in his book have a little faith: a true story (Albom, Mitch, 2011). It really made me mad, because I was finishing it in a restaurant while waiting for my food. I hate it […]
One of the meanings of the term “sabbath” is to “take a breather.” In Genesis, God breathes into humans the breath of life. After the Fall, it becomes Satan’s mission to make us breathless by stealing, through activity, the very life given to us by God. As I processed my own transition right now, it […]
Well, I am off on a new adventure. I have been invited by the Lutheran Deaconess Association (LDA) to enter into formation as a deacon in their community with the intent of being consecrated as a deacon, and then with the invitation to help in the formation of a male community of deacons. I am […]